Aggressive Statins: the IDEAL Treatment

More evidence for the benefits of aggressive lipid-lowering with statins has come from the IDEAL study, which randomised nearly 9000 post-MI patients to either 80 mg of atorvastatin or 20/40 mg simvastatin daily. Terje Pedersen from Ulleval University Hospital in Norway presented the findings.
[audio:http://www.audiomedica.com/podcasting/aha2005/Terje_Pedersen.mp3]